51 posts categorized "words/writing"

Adjusting again to smaller living. The warm spell helped us save wood. Made it possible to get through it all without needing to add to the wood pile. Maybe. That would be nice.

I stitched question marks last night. Fireside. Continuing from yesterday. Here the light coming through the cloth. I can't find my tripod, so here, below, is a very crappy shaky video with bad lighting.

Funny how that doesn't bother me anymore... just want to play show and tell.

click here if you see a black box or no player. Sometimes that happens.

I drew the marks first. White pencil on the dark areas, black on the lighter areas. Split Back Stitch with two strands of floss over that. I used a color in sympathy with the color the line was on. Sort of matching, but sympathy is a better word. Using what I had that was close really.

I love that the cloth is held together by questions. Quilted with confusion even. Maybe not even obvious if I hadn't said it.

I am always confused, but maybe it isn't obvious if I don't share it (said that to myself).

So this cloth might feel better than it looks. And so many questions, confusion, feels good and has a use. Is comforting. How great a morning this has become.

I slept late and I feel lazy. It rained for a while and the sun came out and lit up the patch of tall fire grass in the front yard. And it became like a sun itself.

I just did it again. Without looking at the previous storming. Simple starting. It felt a bit like grade school.

I came away with a few things.

I stayed with little doodles. Not compositions just simple pictures. Little symbols. And I wrote in script, so I could feel the writing part. The connecting. And I realized it has been a while since I wrote in script. It even felt awkward. Like grade school. I made a note to self about that. How it has almost gone out of style to write. I'll do it more. PDF

I think the radiating is the most common way sun is symbolized. This is good. Because I associate sun with center. And I can develop this imagery along side an on going theme I have for holding center and vibrating outward. Yes. I have not connected sun to that before.

When I first ran this class it was more about composing work using sun moon and stars as a theme. I am thinking now, as I gather ideas once again that it might be a bit different for me this time. At least as I begin. I might just explore the ideas in some sort of sampler format. In some basic way. At this point I have a renewed interest in the language of personal symbols. How they are components of creative voice.